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Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
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Hold Your Children Close and Pray for Oblivion (2016)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Norilsk's Sibentodt practice black metal from one of the world's most polluted and isolated cities since 2020. Their extreme Arctic-industrial origins create a naturally hostile context for atmospheric compositions.
Biysk's Sibireal practice black metal from the Altai foothills since 2013. Their Siberian-real portmanteau channels the authentic cold of the Altai Mountains into atmospheric compositions.
Washington State black/death metal project active since 2016, fusing the corrosive rawness of black metal with death metal's heaviness into a bleak and uncompromising sound.
Moscow's Sickle of Dust craft atmospheric black metal from the Russian capital since 2017. Their name combining the harvesting tool with decay channels agricultural mortality into compositions of immersive darkness.
Dzerzhinsk's Sickrites pair black and death metal from the chemical-industry city since 2010. Their diseased-ritual name and toxic-industrial origins channel the ceremony of illness into compositions of dual-genre extremity.
Cherepovets' Side of Despondency channel depressive black metal from the Vologda steel city since 2012. Their name of emotional collapse and industrial origins channel the despair of Russia's steel-smelting heartland into atmospheric compositions.
Pskov's Sidekut Slave practice black metal from the ancient border city since 2013. Their name and origins at one of Russia's oldest cities channel centuries of frontier conflict into atmospheric compositions.
St. Louis industrial black metal act formed in 2019, fusing mechanized, electronic textures with black metal's corrosive atmosphere into a cold, confrontational hybrid.
Siech practice black metal from Berlin, channeling the genre's harsh intensity from the German capital. Active since 2011, they've been a persistent voice in Berlin's deep and varied black metal underground.
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